Hep A can be transmitted by contact with human fecal matter. So it can be transmitted via unclean hands, irrigation with sewage-contaminated water, and fertilization with raw sewage. Types B and C are blood borne. I'm not too sure that foreign organic produce is immune to contamination, because poor hygiene can work in all venues. I believe there is some debate about the use of sewer sludge and the risk of contamination or of generating/concentrating new hep strains, but I don't know how serious that debate is. The intersection of hepatitis/liver disease and the de-toxification load imposed by synthetics (even drugs) is one thing that I think about when I encounter the PBO-is-safe talk.
organic1 wrote:
Where did you hear this? I always thought Hepatitis was a blood borne disease: transferred by eating food which was prepared by unclean hands, by blood transfusion or other such contact, or by having unprotected ***.